Trouble is brewing, dear readers. Our rights and freedoms are under increasingly under attack from corporate entities with enough money to control those in power. We may have won a minor victory against SOPA, but that’s the least of our worries. We can’t keep up the fight forever, and I predict we’re heading to a dark, dark place. Let’s look at the evidence.

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Get access to your favorite podcasts, video or audio, using XBMC. You don’t need any plugin to listen to podcasts, but the method of doing so isn’t entirely obvious and the official documentation isn’t exactly helpful. I spent two weeks playing around with plugins that didn’t really help before stumbling upon this method, so I feel like I should share it.